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Tuesday July 28

4:00 PM Old Monterey Marketplace Alvarado Street · Monterey The Old Monterey Marketplace and Farmers Market fills Alvarado Street every Tuesday afternoon with local produce, food vendors,… More info → Eats

Friday August 7

5:00 PM First Friday Monterey Art Walk Downtown Monterey · Monterey Downtown Monterey galleries and studios stay open late on the first Friday of the month for a self-guided… More info → Arts 6:00 PM First Friday Pacific Grove Downtown Pacific Grove · Pacific Grove Pacific Grove’s monthly First Friday, with independent shops, galleries, and restaurants open late along Lighthouse Avenue. More info → Arts

Saturday August 8

10:00 AM RetroAuto and Automobilia Monterey Conference Center The Pebble Beach Concours shopping and memorabilia experience, downtown at the Conference Center. More info → Car Week

Sunday August 9

9:00 AM Concours on the Avenue Ocean Avenue A free, ticketless show that closes Ocean Avenue in Carmel and fills downtown with hundreds of cars. More info → Car Week

Monday August 10

10:00 AM Automobilia Monterey Embassy Suites Monterey Bay Two days of memorabilia, art, models and parts, the indoor start to Car Week in Seaside. More info → Car Week

Tuesday August 11

12:00 PM The Little Car Show Lighthouse Avenue Pacific Grove hands its main street to small cars, and it is the most charming free morning of… More info → Car Week

Wednesday August 12

9:00 AM Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca Four days of historic racing at Laguna Seca, the one Car Week event where the machinery actually moves. More info → Car Week 9:00 AM Mecum Monterey Auction Hyatt Regency Monterey The longest and most spectator-friendly auction of the week, four days at the Hyatt Regency. More info → Car Week 10:00 AM Concours d’LeMons Seaside City Hall Lawn The self-described celebration of the oddball, the mundane and the truly awful, free on the Seaside lawn. More info → Car Week 5:00 PM Werks Reunion Corral de Tierra Country Club The Porsche Club of America gathering, an all-Porsche field on a country-club fairway off the valley road. More info → Car Week

Thursday August 13

8:00 AM Pacific Grove Rotary Concours Auto Rally Downtown Pacific Grove A free downtown car show and charity rally that turns Pacific Grove into a Thursday-night street party. More info → Car Week 8:00 AM Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance 17-Mile Drive and Highway 1 The one marquee Car Week event you can watch for free: the Concours cars driving the coast on… More info → Car Week 6:00 PM RM Sotheby’s Monterey Auction Monterey Conference Center The marquee Monterey collector-car sale, where eight-figure results set the market for the year. More info → Car Week

Friday August 14

9:00 AM The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering Quail Lodge & Golf Club The hardest ticket of Car Week: a curated lawn at Quail Lodge, poured champagne, and hypercar debuts. More info → Car Week 10:00 AM Legends of the Autobahn Nicklaus Club Monterey German marques take a Carmel Valley fairway: BMW, Mercedes, Audi and Porsche, judged and shown all day. More info → Car Week 10:00 AM Bonhams Quail Auction Quail Lodge Fridays collector-car auction at Quail Lodge, paired with the mornings Motorsports Gathering. More info → Car Week 5:00 PM Gooding and Company Auction Pebble Beach Equestrian Center One of the headline auction nights, next to the Concours at Pebble Beach. More info → Car Week

Saturday August 15

9:30 AM Concorso Italiano Black Horse Golf Course The all-Italian celebration: Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati and more on the Black Horse lawn in Seaside. More info → Car Week 10:00 AM Exotics on Broadway Broadway Avenue Seaside closes Broadway for a free street show of supercars, hypercars, and cold starts. More info → Car Week

Sunday August 16

10:00 AM Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance Pebble Beach Golf Links Car Week closes on the 18th fairway at Pebble Beach, and 2026 marks the 75th anniversary. More info → Car Week

Friday September 4

9:00 AM INDYCAR Grand Prix of Monterey WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca · Salinas The NTT INDYCAR Series season finale returns to Laguna Seca for a weekend of open-wheel racing over the… More info → Sports

Friday September 11

11:00 AM Festa Italia Monterey Custom House Plaza · Monterey A free three-day Italian heritage festival at Custom House Plaza, with food, live music, dancing, and a bocce… More info → Events

Friday September 18

8:00 AM PURE Insurance Championship at Pebble Beach Pebble Beach Golf Links · Pebble Beach PGA TOUR Champions pros, First Tee juniors, and amateurs play Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill over three days.… More info → Sports 9:00 AM GRIDLIFE Laguna Festival WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca · Salinas GRIDLIFE brings time attack, drifting, and live music to Laguna Seca for a motorsports-and-culture festival weekend. More info → Sports 5:00 PM The 69th Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey Fairgrounds · Monterey Three days of jazz across multiple stages at the Monterey Fairgrounds, the longest-running jazz festival in the world. More info → Arts

Saturday September 26

9:00 AM California International Airshow Salinas Salinas Municipal Airport · Salinas Two days of aerobatics and military flight demonstrations over the Salinas Municipal Airport, a Central Coast tradition. More info → Events

Friday October 2

9:00 AM Mission Foods Racing America at Laguna Seca WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca · Salinas Trans Am and Racing America wheel-to-wheel sports car racing closes out the Laguna Seca season. More info → Sports

Thursday November 5

5:00 PM Big Sur Food and Wine Festival Big Sur · Big Sur Chefs and winemakers gather in Big Sur for a weekend of tastings and dinners benefiting the Big Sur… More info → Eats

Sunday November 8

7:00 AM Monterey Bay Half Marathon Custom House Plaza · Monterey The half marathon runs the coastline from Monterey through Pacific Grove, with companion 5K and 3K races over… More info → Sports